When installing NWN2 today, I discovered, it’s best to do so from my GOG copy. The alternative would be to use one of my DVD sources, however the GOG copy comes with the extra games and most importantly the patches downloaded. The patch server has gone and so installing from disk does not work so well, by which I mean the game cannot be patched.

I got distracted during a debate on Google and their regulatory need to delete out-dated and irrelevant entries in their search index. How big is google in Europe? Continue reading “Google’s Market Share”→

I have installed one of the power managers on my Android phones, and when it reaches a v. low level of battery it offers me the option of entering “super saver” state. This turns off a number of rather useful services, most importantly the master sync service Continue reading “Android’s Master Sync switch”→

I have been using Vote it up on my blog for a couple of years, although no-one else has, I think I received one vote that wasn’t me and they also commented. I noticed during the Autumn of 2014 that it seemed a bit broken. So I had a little look and decided to replace it. Continue reading “More wordpress voting plugins”→

While trying to configure pidgin to act as a console for TRM once known as Reuters’ Messenger, I came across this page at their sourceforge site which documents the magic runes, critically the User Name.

(Username is basically derived from the login name by replacing @ to dot and then adding @reuters.net)
Don’t forget that you may have unique password in Reuters network, not the same as your PC/Domain password.

…..there have been considerable changes to the SSL handling in the NSS module. One part of them seems to be that the default for SSL cipher suites now follows the recommendation to disable known unsecure suites, e.g. that use RC4.

You can change the settings with Tools -> Plugins -> NSS Preferences. On my company account, which is a OCS2007 installation, I needed to enable at least TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA or TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 before SSL connections went through again.